The PGA Pro-Am Series is bound for the West this week with tournaments set to take place all over the state throughout May and June.

Hot off the South Australian swing of the PGA Pro-Am Series, players will be venturing West to play for over AU$315k in prize money across the WA series.

Amateurs across Western Australia will also have the opportunity to watch and tee it up with some of Australia’s in form professionals including Victorians Jarrod Lyle and Ashley Hall, who will play The Open Championship in July, as well as local favourites Stephen Dartnall and Jarryd Felton.

The WA swing of the PGA Pro-Am Series, a will tee off at the West Coast Wines Ronald McDonald House Pro-Am hosted by Hartfield Golf Club on Friday 5 May before moving around some of the region’s best golf courses and finishing at the Broome Open in the north west at the end of June.

The Cottesloe Open will be the first two day event on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May boasting a prize purse of $30,000 as well as a Super Seniors Invitational that will see legends such as Wayne Grady, Michael Harwood and Peter Fowler competing.

The series then moves through Perth to Lakelands Country Club before heading north to Sun City, Yanchep followed by a four hour drive north to one of WA’s favourite events and multiple winner of the WA PGA Pro-Am of the Year Award, the Spalding Park Open in Geraldton.

The PGA Pro-Am Series will take a break for a week when the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia arrives in Western Australia for the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship to be played at the scenic and challenging Kalgoorlie Golf Course from 18-21 May.

Following the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship in Kalgoorlie, players will head south playing the Kwinana Pro-Am and moving on to the recently crowned ‘2016 Pro-Am of the Year’, the Steelscene Peel Pro-Am. This year’s Peel event has been increased to three rounds with a total purse of AU$33,000 being played for across Mandurah Country Club, The Cut and Meadows Springs Country Club.

State Manager for the WA/SA Division of the PGA of Australia, Kim Felton said; “The Pro-Am Series provides a great opportunity for both tour professionals and PGA teaching and coaching professionals to compete.  We are very proud of the number, standard and quality of events we’re able to offer to our professionals across this Series.”

“Pro-Am events are such an important part of player development for our professionals as they look to build skills and earn further opportunities to compete on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and progress to other international tours”, added the former Tour Professional.

“This swing of events will be a different experience for me after spending the last few decades out on course playing the Pro-Am’s, but I’m looking forward to being on the other side of the ropes so to speak and catching up with all my friends and fellow professionals as we host them in our great State”, Felton added.

WA PGA Chairman and fellow professional Rob Farley added, “Pro-Am golf is an important part of growing golf in Australia and all the PGA Professionals always look forward to coming to WA, playing alongside and sharing their knowledge with the amateurs that play these events.”